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Re: Week 2 Game Thread

As I said in both games the Defense has been both vanilla and unimaginative. Your missing your best pass rusher in Suggs and you do nothing at all exotic in two games to create pressure????

On third down in both games Pees seems content to rush 3 or 4 and give the QB all friggin day to pick the defense apart. Unbelievable

Sadly, Pees is looking just like Pops. The few times we got to Vick was with blitzes. When we didn't get to him, he completed almost everything. That would lead a normal person to bring pressure and take your chances. I love the third and 12 where we rushed 3. That was great.

Re: Week 2 Game Thread

Originally Posted by Jay D83

They stopped running the no huddle - THAT was the problem!

I mean, let me clarify, I'm not saying that the no huddle would have continued to be successful, but it was working and it was keeping the Eagles from rotating DL'men in as much as they did in the 2nd half and that is a big deal when you're facing a team like the Eagles who run a wide-9 defensive front.

Re: Week 2 Game Thread

Originally Posted by bmorecareful

Are you guys serious? The defense gave up over 500 yards, 50% on 3rd and 4th downs, over 10 yards per passing attempt. They let Michael Vick do whatever he pleased the entire game, and collected a few lucky turnovers to limit the damage to 24 instead of 44. You can't absolve the defense of the egg they laid today.

The offense was bad. Flacco was bad, but he is not the reason we lost this game. It was a total team loss where our OL (outside of perhaps Yanda) looked like 5 big guys plucked off the street, our WRs looked like they were running in slow motion, and our OC forgot how to call a winning game.

I know the fun narrative will be "it's all Flacco's fault," but that's absolutely idiotic. The only players who deserved their pay today were Rice and Tucker

I don't know about the others you quoted, but I'm not blaming Joe for the loss...although if he played better in the second half, no question we win.

At the moment I posted that, we had a clear chance to win if Joe keeps his head in the game and we don't try and go for the damn home run on virtually every down...and when he didn't, he wasn't accurate on the short throws.

Re: Week 2 Game Thread

I think the defense sucks worse than the offense. If it wasn't for Vick throwing picks and fumbles, the score would've been worse than what it was. Philly has a good-great D, and the Ravens just played trying to get the ball. They weren't stopping shit else. Similar to last week in the first 3 quarters.

Re: Week 2 Game Thread

Granted, offense didn't play as well 2nd half. But they did enough and the D couldn't close the deal.

We face an angry Pats next week, and have a real chance of going 1-2.

What do you mean???

He threw a TD to Jacoby. Played bad before that but that non-TD should've sealed it.

He also missed a wide open Pitta in the endzone. He underthrew Torrey Smith by a mile on what would have been a TD if Joe hits him in stride. He took a terrible sack that, if not for Tuckers leg knocks us out of field goal range. Make all the excuses you want for Joe, he had far more bad plays than good ones today.

I usually try to support Flacco but I am sick of the hype. He's not nearly as good as he thinks he is.